Traffic & Transit
Semi Fire Shuts Down I-55 Lanes Near Plainfield For 5 Hours
Cleanup from an early Monday morning crash involving a truck carrying produce backed up traffic for several miles.
PLAINFIELD, IL — A semi-trailer truck that caught on fire early Monday morning caused delays for nearly five hours along the northbound lanes of Interstate-55 (Barack Obama Presidential Expressway) approaching IL-126 near Plainfield. WBBM is reporting the crash happened at around 2:30 a.m., shutting down three lanes past Route 30 (between Renwick Road and Lockport Street) for several hours.
As of 6:30 a.m., the two left lanes had reopened, but the right lane remained closed, causing a two-mile backup as crews continued to work on cleanup. That lane was reopened by 7:30 a.m.
Traffic reporter Bill West posted on Twitter that the "truck was fully loaded with produce, and all of that load is being removed to other trucks."
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